"The Big Chill (film) The Big Chill is a 1983 American comedy-drama film directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, and JoBeth Williams. The plot focuses on a group of baby boomers who attended the University of Michigan, reuniting after 15 years when their friend Alex commits suicide. Kevin Costner was cast as Alex, but all scenes showing his face were cut. It was filmed in Beaufort, South Carolina. The soundtrack features soul, R&B, and pop-rock music from the 1960s and 1970s, including tracks by Creedence Clearwater"
"Third Kind"" – Joe Alves 1979: ""Alien"" – Michael Seymour 1980: ""The Elephant Man"" – Stuart Craig 1981: ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" – Norman Reynolds 1982: ""Blade Runner"" – Lawrence G. Paull 1983: ""La Traviata"" – Gianni Quaranta and Franco Zeffirelli 1985: ""Brazil"" – Norman Garwood 1986: ""A Room with a View"" – Brian Ackland-Snow and Gianni Quaranta 1987: ""Radio Days"" – Santo Loquasto 1988: """" – Dean Tavoularis 1989: ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" – Dante Ferretti 1990: ""Dick Tracy"" – Richard Sylbert 1991: ""Edward Scissorhands"" – Bo Welch 1992: ""Strictly Ballroom"" – Catherine Martin 1993: ""The Piano"""
"53rd Academy Awards The 53rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1980, were presented March 31, 1981, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The ceremonies, which were presided over by Johnny Carson, were originally scheduled for the previous day but were postponed due to the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. David Lynch's ""The Elephant Man"" and Martin Scorsese's ""Raging Bull"", with eight nominations each, had the most nominations of this year's films. Their nominations included Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. Michael Apted's ""Coal Miner's Daughter"" received seven nominations while ""Ordinary People"" and ""Tess"""
"order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 53rd Academy Awards The 53rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1980, were presented March 31, 1981, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The ceremonies, which were presided over by Johnny Carson, were originally scheduled for the previous day but were postponed due to the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. David Lynch's ""The Elephant Man"" and Martin Scorsese's ""Raging Bull"", with eight nominations each, had the most nominations of this year's films. Their nominations included"
"1980 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 15th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 6 January 1981, honored the best filmmaking of 1980. 1. Melvin and Howard<br> 2. ""Raging Bull""<br> 2. ""Every Man for Himself"" (""Sauve qui peut (la vie)"") 1. Martin Scorsese – ""Raging Bull""<br> 2. Jonathan Demme – ""Melvin and Howard""<br> 3. Jean-Luc Godard – ""Every Man for Himself"" (""Sauve qui peut (la vie)"") 1. Peter O'Toole – ""The Stunt Man""<br> 2. Robert De Niro – ""Raging Bull""<br> 3. Robert Duvall – ""The Great Santini"" 1. Sissy Spacek – ""Coal Miner's Daughter""<br> 2. Mary Tyler"
"(which starred Don Murray); ""The Luck of Ginger Coffey"" (with Robert Shaw and Mary Ure); ""A Fine Madness"" (with Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, and Jean Seberg); ""The Flim-Flam Man"" (starring George C. Scott); ""Up the Sandbox"" (with Barbra Streisand); ""Loving"" (with George Segal and Eva Marie Saint); ""The Return of a Man Called Horse"" (starring Richard Harris); the critically acclaimed TV movie ""Raid on Entebbe"" (an intense true-life drama which was nominated for nine Emmys, including Best Direction); and the supernatural thriller ""Eyes of Laura Mars"" (starring Faye Dunaway and Tommy Lee Jones). Kershner was the son of Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants."
"3. Roger Deakins – ""A Serious Man"" 1. Kathryn Bigelow – ""The Hurt Locker""<br> 2. Wes Anderson – ""Fantastic Mr. Fox""<br> 3. Quentin Tarantino – ""Inglourious Basterds"" 1. ""The Hurt Locker""<br> 2. ""Up in the Air""<br> 3. ""Fantastic Mr. Fox"" 1. ""Summer Hours (L'heure d'été)"" • France<br> 2. ""Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos)"" • Spain<br> 3. ""Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick)"" • Sweden 1. ""Of Time and the City""<br> 2. ""Anvil! The Story of Anvil""<br> 3. ""Tyson"" 1. Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell and Tony Roche, – ""In the Loop""<br> 2. Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner – ""Up"
"Three of Hearts (1993 film) Three of Hearts is a 1993 comedy/romance film directed by Yurek Bogayevicz and starring William Baldwin, Kelly Lynch, and Sherilyn Fenn. The story involves a love triangle: a straight gigolo Joe (Baldwin), his lesbian best friend Connie (Lynch), and her former lover, an attractive bisexual woman Ellen (Fenn). Connie is desperate to win Ellen back and Joe volunteers to break Ellen's heart to convince her that heterosexual relationships are inferior to lesbian ones. The hope is that the disaster will cause her to return to Connie. Neither counts on Joe having feelings for Ellen nor"
"even ranked it as high as ""Tender Mercies"", the 1983 Oscar-winning film with Robert Duvall as a struggling country singer. Roger Ebert agreed with Siskel claiming that he was surprised how great the directing and acting was, and said that he wanted the word to get around that it was one of the best films of the year, although this film never actually made Siskel and Ebert's Best List for the year of 1992. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone also gave the film a positive review. Among the critics who had a passionate dislike for the film were Jeffrey Lyons"
"predicted upon its release that it would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1983. In his movie guide, Leonard Maltin awarded the film a rare four-star rating, calling it a ""Wonderful mix of humor and heartache"", and concluded the film was ""Consistently offbeat and unpredictable, with exceptional performances by all three stars"". The film won five Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards: A sequel to the film, ""The Evening Star"" (1996), in which MacLaine and Nicholson reprised their roles, was a critical and commercial failure. Terms of Endearment Terms of Endearment is a 1983"
"Three Men and a Baby Three Men and a Baby is a 1987 American comedy film directed by Leonard Nimoy and starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson and Nancy Travis. It follows the mishaps and adventures of three bachelors as they attempt to adapt their lives to pseudo-fatherhood with the arrival of the love child of one of them. The script was based on the 1985 French film (""Three Men and a Cradle""). The film was the biggest American box office hit of that year, surpassing ""Fatal Attraction"" and eventually grossing $167 million in the US. The film won"
"positive reviews from critics, with major critical acclaim drawn towards Close's performance which some considered to be the best of her career. Close was nominated for several accolades including Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. This plot description is chronological, although major parts of the film are told in flashback. In 1956, Joan Archer (Annie Starke) meets Joseph Castleman (Harry Lloyd), a handsome young married professor at a women-only college. Although already"
"The Natural (film) The Natural is a 1984 American sports film based on Bernard Malamud's 1952 novel of the same name, directed by Barry Levinson and starring Robert Redford, Glenn Close, and Robert Duvall. Like the book, the film recounts the experiences of Roy Hobbs, an individual with great ""natural"" baseball talent, spanning the decades of Roy's career. It was the first film produced by TriStar Pictures. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress (Close), and it was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress (Kim Basinger). Many of the baseball scenes"
"overall and praised the performances of its two lead actors. Janet Maslin of ""The New York Times"" also praised the performances, but thought the film predictable. Roger Ebert described the suspense in the film as ""supremely effective"" and rated the movie 3 1/2 stars. Jagged Edge (film) Jagged Edge is a 1985 American courtroom thriller written by Joe Eszterhas and directed by Richard Marquand. The film stars Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Peter Coyote and Robert Loggia (who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role). An intruder in a black mask ties up San Francisco"
"Fire"" (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), ""Local Hero"", ""Memphis Belle"", ""Meeting Venus"" and ""The Killing Fields"" and ""The Mission"" with Roland Joffé (which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1986). Many of the Enigma films made in the 1980s were done in association with the financial backer Goldcrest Films. Puttnam was chairman and CEO of Columbia Pictures from June 1986 until September 1987. In 1998, he retired from film production to focus on his work in education and the environment. In 1983, Puttnam was appointed as a Commander of The Most Excellent Order"
"1982 also saw the release of Disney's ""Tron"" which was one of the first films from a major studio to use computer graphics extensively. American independent cinema struggled more during the decade, although Martin Scorsese's ""Raging Bull"" (1980), ""After Hours"" (1985), and ""The King of Comedy"" (1983) helped to establish him as one of the most critically acclaimed American film makers of the era. Also during 1983 ""Scarface"" was released, which was very profitable and resulted in even greater fame for its leading actor Al Pacino. Probably the most successful film commercially was Tim Burton's 1989 version of Bob Kane's"
"Giorgio Moroder's score, propelled the story of an aspiring ballerina (Jennifer Beals, in her film debut) who works in a factory by day and dances in a club at night. The film generated over $200 million worldwide and was the third highest-grossing film of 1983. The film was also nominated for three Academy Awards, with the theme song, ""What a Feeling"", winning the Oscar for Best Song. In 1986, Lyne attracted controversy with ""9½ Weeks"". Based on a novel by Elizabeth McNeill, the tale of a sexually obsessive relationship starred Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger. Although considered too explicit by"
"The Atomic Fireballs. Three to Tango Three to Tango is a 1999 Australian-American romantic comedy film directed by Damon Santostefano, written by Rodney Patrick Vaccaro and Aline Brosh McKenna, and starring Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell, Dylan McDermott and Oliver Platt. It was a box office bomb and received generally negative reviews from critics. Architects Oscar Novak (Perry) and Peter Steinberg (Platt) have just landed a career-making opportunity to design of a multimillion dollar cultural center for wealthy businessman Charles Newman (McDermott). In a ploy for publicity, Newman has pitched Oscar and Peter in a neck-and-neck competition with their archrivals and"
"Moore – ""Ordinary People""<br> 3. Goldie Hawn – ""Private Benjamin"" 1. Joe Pesci – ""Raging Bull""<br> 2. Timothy Hutton – ""Ordinary People""<br> 3. Jason Robards – ""Melvin and Howard"" 1. Mary Steenburgen – ""Melvin and Howard""<br> 2. Debra Winger – ""Urban Cowboy""<br> 3. Cathy Moriarty – ""Raging Bull"" 1. Bo Goldman – ""Melvin and Howard""<br> 2. John Sayles – ""Return of the Secaucus 7""<br> 3. Jean Gruault – ""Mon Oncle d'Amérique"" 1. Michael Chapman – ""Raging Bull""<br> 2. Freddie Francis – ""The Elephant Man""<br> 3. Ghislain Cloquet and Geoffrey Unsworth – ""Tess"" 1980 National Society of Film Critics Awards The"
"May 30. Over the next half-century, Sierra No. 3 pulled tourist excursion trains and appeared in dozens of films, TV shows, and commercials. Among them were ""High Noon"" in 1952, for which Gary Cooper won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and ""Unforgiven"", starring and directed by Clint Eastwood, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture for 1992. The locomotive was often redecorated for various movie and television appearances, one of its most famous roles being the ""Hooterville Cannonball"" from the mid-sixties series ""Petticoat Junction"". False smokestacks were also often installed to alter the appearance of the locomotive. In"
"the Best Actor Oscar for ""Save the Tiger"" (1973), becoming the first actor to achieve this rare double (the only other actors to have done so are Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Spacey, and Denzel Washington). He was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film ""Missing"" in 1982, and for his roles in ""Some Like It Hot"" (1959), ""The Apartment"" (1960), ""Days of Wine and Roses"" (1962), ""The China Syndrome"" (1979), for which he was also awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, and ""Tribute"" (1980). He won another"
"Save the Tiger Save the Tiger is a 1973 drama film about moral conflict in contemporary America directed by John G. Avildsen, and starring Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Thayer David, Lara Parker, and Liv Lindeland. The screenplay was adapted by Steve Shagan from his novel of the same title. Lemmon won the 1973 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Harry Stoner (making him the first of six actors to win Oscars for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor), an executive in the garment industry who struggles with the complexity of modern life versus the"
"Endgame (1983 film) Endgame (Bronx lotta finale) is a 1983 Italian post-apocalyptic film starring Al Cliver, Laura Gemser and George Eastman. It was directed, co-written and produced by Joe D'Amato, under the pseudonym ""Steven Benson"". In the year 2025, a nuclear holocaust has left New York City an irradiated, but not abandoned, wasteland. The ruined city is inhabited now by scavenger packs and telepathic mutants, who are persecuted by the elite survivors. Keeping the people pacified is the reality television program ""Endgame"", where hunters and gladiators fight to the death. ""Endgame"" veteran Ron Shannon (Cliver) assembles a team to take"
"starring Michael Caine), Gordon Willis's thriller ""Windows"" (1980), Andrew Bergman's comedy ""So Fine"" (1981) starring Ryan O'Neal, Matt Cimber's film ""Butterfly"" (1982), starring Pia Zadora, Samuel Fuller's controversial drama film ""White Dog"" (1982) and ""Thieves After Dark"" (1984), Jerry London's critically acclaimed TV movie ""The Scarlet and the Black"" (1983), starring Gregory Peck, and Richard Fleischers box office bomb ""Red Sonja"" (1985), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Brigitte Nielsen. Morricone's most fruitful and often long-term collaborations in English language cinema been with directors such as Brian De Palma, Barry Levinson, Warren Beatty, Oliver Stone and especially Roland Joffé, for whom Morricone"
"training there for the Mr. Universe competition. Schwarzenegger won a Golden Globe for ""Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture"" for his portrayal of Joe Santo: technically, it was not his debut role, since he had played Hercules (as ""Arnold Strong"") in the 1969 film ""Hercules in New York"", a gangster's henchman in Robert Altman's 1973 film ""The Long Goodbye"" and a masseur in the 1974 television film ""Happy Anniversary and Goodbye"". Craig Blake (Jeff Bridges) is a young Southern man born of a wealthy family, but left lonely and idle after his parents died in a plane crash. He"
"its $23 million budget, and also winning an Academy Award for special effects. One of his better-known roles was in the 1982 science fiction film ""Tron"", in which he played Kevin Flynn, a video game programmer (a role he reprised in late 2010 with the sequel """"). The same year (1982), he also starred in ""Kiss Me Goodbye"", an American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Mulligan that also starred Sally Field. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1984, for playing the alien in ""Starman"". He was also acclaimed for his roles in the thriller"
"objet du désir"")<br> 3. John Travolta – ""Saturday Night Fever"" 1. Diane Keaton – ""Annie Hall""<br> 2. Shelley Duvall – ""3 Women""<br> 3. Jane Fonda – ""Julia"" 1. Edward Fox – ""A Bridge Too Far""<br> 2. Bill Macy – ""The Late Show""<br> 3. David Hemmings – ""Islands in the Stream""<br> 3. Maximilian Schell – ""Julia"" 1. Ann Wedgeworth – ""Handle with Care""<br> 2. Marcia Rodd – ""Handle with Care""<br> 3. Sissy Spacek – ""3 Women"" 1977 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 12th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 19 December 1977, honored the best filmmaking of"
"its American distributor, and cut for U.S. release, it became a huge hit abroad in its unedited version. Lyne's fourth film was the blockbuster ""Fatal Attraction"", which generated over $320 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of 1987. The story of a happily married lawyer (Michael Douglas) who tries to break off an affair with an attractive single woman (Glenn Close), only to have her become obsessed with him and endanger his family, the film struck a chord with audiences. Deemed ""the zeitgeist hit of the decade"" by ""TIME Magazine"", ""Fatal Attraction"" earned six Academy Award nominations including Best"
"Twins, Cape Fear, Parenthood, The Flintstones, Kindergarten Cop, Beethoven and Beethoven's 2nd, Casper, Waterworld, Sneakers, Lorenzo's Oil, and Casino. While Pollock was at the helm of Universal, the studio earned seven Academy Award Best Picture Nominations, including Schindler's List, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1993. Other Best Picture nominees included Field of Dreams, Born on the Fourth of July, Scent of a Woman, In the Name of the Father, Apollo 13 and Babe. Pollock was responsible for bringing numerous creative talents to the studio including Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, Ivan Reitman, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee,"
"Terms of Endearment Terms of Endearment is a 1983 American comedy-drama film adapted from Larry McMurtry's 1975 novel, directed, written, and produced by James L. Brooks, and starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, and John Lithgow. The film covers 30 years of the relationship between Aurora Greenway (MacLaine) and her daughter Emma (Winger). The film received eleven Academy Award nominations, and won five. Brooks won the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, while MacLaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and Nicholson won"
"Three to Tango Three to Tango is a 1999 Australian-American romantic comedy film directed by Damon Santostefano, written by Rodney Patrick Vaccaro and Aline Brosh McKenna, and starring Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell, Dylan McDermott and Oliver Platt. It was a box office bomb and received generally negative reviews from critics. Architects Oscar Novak (Perry) and Peter Steinberg (Platt) have just landed a career-making opportunity to design of a multimillion dollar cultural center for wealthy businessman Charles Newman (McDermott). In a ploy for publicity, Newman has pitched Oscar and Peter in a neck-and-neck competition with their archrivals and former colleagues, the"
"were the four actresses to portray the title roles, and Macdonald Carey campaigned for a secondary role. In 1985, the film was remade into a television movie of the same name starring Loni Anderson as Lora Mae, Michele Lee as Rita, Stephanie Zimbalist as Debra, Charles Frank as Brad, Michael Gross as George and Ben Gazzara as Porter. Ann Sothern also appeared as Ma Finney. In 2010, ""The Simpsons"" made their own version of the story, in an episode called ""Moe Letter Blues"". A Letter to Three Wives A Letter to Three Wives is a 1949 American romantic drama film"
"Lightness of Being""<br> 3. Michelle Pfeiffer – ""Dangerous Liaisons"" 1. Ron Shelton – ""Bull Durham""<br> 2. David Cronenberg and Norman Snider – ""Dead Ringers""<br> 3. Shawn Slovo – ""A World Apart"" 1. Henri Alekan – ""Wings of Desire"" (""Der Himmel über Berlin"")""<br> 2. Sven Nykvist – ""The Unbearable Lightness of Being""<br> 3. Philippe Rousselot – ""Dangerous Liaisons""<br> 3. Conrad L. Hall – ""Tequila Sunrise""<br> 3. Vittorio Storaro – """" 1. The Thin Blue Line<br> 2. """"<br> 3. ""Tokyo Olympiad"" (""Tôkyô orimpikku"") 1988 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 23rd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 9 January"